There will be time when sickness may come to you or to one of your children and you have to miss a Lord's Day service. What do we do on those days to still set it aside as a Sabboth to the Lord? We want to hear from the Lord and we are sad when we must miss, but there are many things that we can still do to make it a joyous day. We live in a day of internet access in which the opportunity to hear good, solid, Biblical preaching is available. I suggest to use this time to listen to a sermon online, spend an extended time reading your Bible if you can, listening to music that focuses our mind on Christ and what He has accomplished for those who are in Him, serving your sick child and loving on him or her, reading books that focus our mind on Christ. Set this day aside and be intentional to make it special even when you cannot be together with other Christians. It is only one day a week that we really get to do this and we ought to look forward to being with God's people and hearing from the Lord.
I say all of this today because I was looking forward with great anticipation to hearing my husbands sermon from Colossians this morning on the Colossian hymn: Colossians 1: For by Him and through Him and to Him are all things..." Our son has had a fever and a stomach ache for the past 3 days and I was really hoping that this morning he would be better. However, last night the fever was just getting the best of him and he was up a lot. He is just laying around, drinking water a little at a time, and going to the bathroom. My energetic little boy is just sick. It is my duty to serve him and love him through all of this and I wouldn't do anything different.
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